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Struggle for the city : migrant labor, capital, and the state in urban Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cooper, Frederick, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, [1983]
Series:Sage series on African modernization and development ; v. 8.
Subjects:
Migrant labor > Africa.
Cities and towns > Africa.
Social classes > Africa.
Africa > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Urban space, industrial time, and wage labor in Africa / Frederick Cooper
  • Workers as criminals / William Worger
  • Productivity and protest / Jeff Crisp
  • Here everyone walked with fear / Jeanne Penvenne
  • A colonial state and an African petty bourgeoisie / Luise White
  • De la calabasse a la production en serie / Gerard Salem
  • Work, migration, and class in western Nigeria / Sara S. Berry
  • Struggle from the margins / Colin Murray.